Spain: The Chinese Garment Factories Are Guilty Of Unwarranted Charges.

According to reports, in 2009, the Spanish government carried out a surprise investigation of the Chinese garment factory in the town of Matar, a suburb of Barcelona, and carried out publicity and publicity with the charges of "underworld, kidnapping, blackmail" and so on. After four whole years, the case finally settled down. After being investigated by over 190 garment factory leaders in the Matar incident, they cleaned up the crime of "underworld society" and got the passport that had been seized by the local government for nearly four years.

However, the impact of the Matar incident has made the local Chinese garment factories sharply reduced, and the remaining garment factories are faced with various difficulties and difficult to maintain. In order to avoid the recurrence of the "Matar incident" and solve the problems that Chinese garment factories are facing now and to integrate the industry norms, the local Chinese workers engaged in garment factories have recently held a meeting to set up "West China". Spin Products import and Export Association, to rally the strength of local Chinese.

It is understood that Matar in the outskirts of Barcelona is a cotton spinning and knitting base with a long history in Spain. Since more than 100 years ago, cotton textiles here have been exported to various European countries. According to an old local expatriate, he told reporters: "at the beginning of this century, a large number of people were engaged. clothes The Chinese in the manufacturing industry began to pour into Matar, and then gradually formed a scale. They were engaged in the cotton spinning and knitting industry until the peak in 2006. At that time, there were nearly more than 400 garment factories in China.

However, in 2009, the Spanish Ministry of interior, a local Chinese clothing industry, launched a massive riot police in the name of the "triad" suspected of kidnapping, drug trafficking and blackmailing, and summoned a large number of Chinese people engaged in the garment industry, which made the Chinese garment industry hit hard and never recovered.

According to a local overseas Chinese, told reporters: "since the beginning of 2009, the Chinese garment factories here have begun to fade, from the time when nearly four hundred enterprises have been declining to more than a dozen remaining now. The key is that under the double beating of the economic crisis and continuous checks by the local government, the dozen Chinese garment factories are still hard to maintain."

It is understood that the most serious factor affecting the remaining garment factories is the serious default of the Spanish suppliers under the economic crisis, which makes all the local garment factories appear to be in arrears of funds in varying degrees. According to Mr. Yu, director of the Chinese garment factory, "now there are three or four factories in the Matar garment factory, but the rest are smaller factories. But it is no exaggeration to say that now all the Chinese clothing factories in Matar have been dragged down, and a little less than twenty thousand or thirty thousand euros and a little more than about one hundred thousand euros are very normal.

Owing to the arrears of payments, the contradiction between the local garment factories and the Spanish suppliers and the Spanish suppliers has been caused by many locals. But even if this is the case, the arrears of wages still can not be returned.

According to Mr. Yu, he told reporters: "nothing can be done, foreigners can apply for bankruptcy, and nothing will come back if they fail. Not long ago, a garment factory on our side was defaulted on more than 40000 of the money owed by a foreigner. It has not been given for several years to find a supplier. The supplier said that he had no money to pay and applied for bankruptcy. As a result, the owner of the garment factory was very anxious because the more than 40000 owed money still had a large number of workers' wages unpaid, so the boss of the garment factory could only rely on the supplier's home to ask for a loan, but the supplier called the police, but the police took the owner of the garment factory away for more than two days.

Because of the inability to claim the money owed, most of the garment factories had to turn over the capital by vicious competition and arrears of wages. This situation also intensified the internal contradictions of the garment factories. According to Mr. Yu, he told reporters: "suppliers who fail to apply for business fail to come back. The suppliers who are in business are in arrears of funds and are afraid to come back, for fear that they will no longer supply goods after they ask the funds to offend the suppliers, so many of the clothes factory owners here fall into a vicious circle, and the more they are defaulted, the more they have to look for jobs everywhere. If the funds are not in place, it can only shrink from the wages of the workers first, so that the wages of workers are in arrears, and there is a sharp increase in the contradiction between the workers and the employers. It can be said that it is very difficult to invite a skilled worker now. In contrast, the treatment of workers has been improving in recent years, but no one has come to work because they all know that the promotion of treatment is one thing and whether it can be given is another matter.

In addition, in order to get more money from the working capital and make the factory run smoothly, the Matar surviving Chinese factories have been selling businesses in the form of lower prices: large garment factories reduce the cost of receiving goods so that they can get a small amount of money from suppliers, and the small garment factories reduce the price and how much they can spend to earn their living. {page_break}

According to the local name garment factory The boss told reporters: "the competition is so intense that even dozens of jerseys, regardless of the size of the garment factory must fight for competition. If you can produce one euro, I will give you 0.8 euros or 0.7 euros. Anyway, we all feel that as long as there is work, we can survive and do not care about other people's lives or compatriots.

At the same time, after the Matar incident, the local Chinese clothing industry, which had been transformed by the media "gangdom", has not been rehabilitated. Even this stereotyped impression has led to the fact that nearly four years after the incident, various departments of the government have been inspecting the local Chinese garment industry for various reasons, making the local clothing industry owners miserable.

According to the owner of a local garment factory, he told reporters: "frequent inspections, black checks, sanitation checks, traffic checks, fire inspections, tax inspections and so on, all kinds of inspections will happen almost every month. All the people who make clothes here feel a sword hanging on their heads at any time and anywhere, falling down all the time. "

Not long ago, there was a final conclusion on the four year old Matar hunt incident. The Spanish government organized the action against "underworld, exploitation of labor and trafficking in human beings" and finally failed in the absence of effective evidence. At that time, more than one hundred Chinese were accused of being wronged by more than 90 Chinese local garment factories. However, in the face of this "good news", Chinese people still living in Matar and engaged in the garment industry do not like it.

According to the boss of a clothing factory, "after 09 years of events, the Chinese garment industry of Matar has been hit hard and can not afford to start a life elsewhere. It can be said that many people in the garment industry walked and scattered in that time, and now they can only maintain their families. Now the incident has a final conclusion, but what's the use of it? The stereotype effect can't be eliminated at one thirty for a long time. It can be said that although the reversion has been rehabilitated, all the achievements of the Chinese people in the locals have been destroyed.

Faced with the challenges of the economic crisis and the stereotyped impact of the incident, several Chinese people in Matar began preparations for the establishment of an overseas Chinese delegation to serve the industry in April. According to Sun Sipeng, the initiator, "because of the fact that they were in the front row, we have been given unjust injustice for more than four years. Now the Matar Chinese are facing the challenges of the economic crisis, which are not conducive to the development of the Chinese garment industry. How can we withstand challenges during the serious economic crisis, and at the same time enable the industry to standardize its operation and regain the recognition of locals and local governments? We Matar Chinese must unite and set up an organization that can effectively speak and work for local Chinese people, and jointly discuss and deal with the difficulties facing us now. This is very necessary.

On the 21 day, at the call of Sun Sipeng, the representatives of more than 10 garment factories in Matar garment industry held a conference to discuss the theme and significance of how to establish associations and associations. Over two hours of meetings, representatives of garment factories recalled the events and effects of the Matar incident, and agreed to set up a Chinese Association to guide the development of the local garment industry.

According to Sun Sipeng told reporters: "the establishment of the Matar association is different from other Spanish associations. We must place the interests of the local Chinese garment industry in the first place, integrate the problems encountered in the Chinese garment industry practically, strengthen communication and contact with the local government, and also guide the industry to return to a track conducive to development. Although the industry is now in the stage of an economic crisis, we must take a step in guiding industry norms, so that Chinese enterprises in the industry can preserve their strength and run smoothly.

It is understood that the registered Western China textile products import and export association is now in the preparatory stage. After the completion of the preparations, the association will report the situation to the Chinese Consulate General in Barcelona, the local government and other departments according to the current situation of the Matar Chinese garment industry, and discuss with them the development of the Chinese garment industry.